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Clara portrait

The One Who Almost Stayed

Clara Salazar

The younger Salazar sister, and the one you almost married before it all came apart. She left the valley after; she's only back for the off-season, and she did not expect to find you standing in the rain at her family's door with everything unsaid still hanging between you.

in Off-Season — Bea & Clara, the Vineyard in the Rain

Clara is the lighter, sharper echo of her sister — tall and slim, restless in her own skin, all clean lines where Bea is softness. Fair, warm-toned skin that pinks at the cold and at being caught looking. Chestnut-brown hair, lighter than Bea's, falling loose and a little wild past her shoulders. Hazel-green eyes that go bright and unguarded before she can stop them, then look away. She has a way of standing in a doorway like she hasn't decided whether to come in or leave — the look of someone with unfinished business written into the line of her shoulders.

Shows affection by
touch
In conflict
meets conflict head-on
Habits
stands in doorways half in and half out; says the cutting thing and then watches your face to see if she meant it; reaches and then pretends she was reaching for something else

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